I can hear the voice of Chinese medicine

Chapter 207 The person is not sick, it’s the medicine.
"The pharmacy business is really good, and there are people everywhere."

The group had just walked into Hui'an Pharmacy, and Lin Yongzhen couldn't help but sigh when he saw seven or eight people buying medicines inside.

"is not that right?"

Ji Xiuwen said: "There are not many other stores in our country, but there are so many pharmacies. This is still in a small county. Some big cities are even more powerful. For example, there are three under the community where Lu Xuan and I rented. The pharmacies are no more than ten meters apart, which is exactly what the saying goes, there is a pharmacy every ten steps away, and there is no food supply for three miles."

Speaking of this, Ji Xiuwen was speechless for a while.

The Chinese must be sick!
How else can we support so many pharmacies?
There are pharmacies all over the streets. Without statistics, there must be several times more pharmacies than grain stores and vegetable stores.

To put it bluntly, except for funeral homes, there are pharmacies downstairs everywhere.

Vegetable baskets and rice bags, these key projects implemented by the government have not been very popular, but the pharmacy industry has taken the lead in achieving full industry coverage.

Of course, this is not the most awesome.

The best part is, these pharmacies are making money.

If Shibuyi Pharmacy is making money, how many people need to be sick to do this?
Moreover, you must know that a large number of people will not come to the pharmacy to buy medicine when they are sick, but will go directly to the hospital. Even so, a pharmacy in Shibu can still make money. You can imagine how sick this world is. .

Having said this, Ji Xiuwen added: "In the past, the couplets posted in drug stores were to wish that people in the world would be free from illness, and would rather put medicines on the shelf to make people fall into the dust.

But it’s different now. The big banner in the drugstore reads: 128 eggs will be given for purchase of 10 yuan or more. The more you buy, the more you will get free. The implication is: you must be sick, take medicine if you are sick, keep healthy if you are not sick, and eat some if you are fine. If you can’t take it, save it for another time. There is always a medicine you need.

It's like in the eyes of these people who open pharmacies, it doesn't matter whether you are sick or not, you have to be sick even if you are not sick. "

Lin Yongzhen nodded noncommittally, as if he had thought of something, and whispered: "The industry that should not be big is getting stronger and bigger all over the country, and it has begun to bully customers and manipulate the situation.

I still remember when I was a child, my dad once went to buy a commonly used medicine. He was afraid that he could not explain clearly, so he went with an empty medicine box.The pharmacist looked at everyone with gleaming eyes like a sick god of wealth, and kept asking my dad what his symptoms were.Balabala￥#@*&& talked a lot. In the end, my dad bought the medicines he should buy and the ones he shouldn’t buy. He originally planned to buy a box of medicines worth more than ten yuan, but ended up taking one or two hundred. take the medicine home.

My mother was frightened at the time, thinking that my father had some strange disease. She was ignorant before, but she didn't feel anything at all. Now that I think about it and look at the pharmacies all over the street, as a doctor, I feel unspeakably uncomfortable. . "

"Who said no?"

Several people were talking quietly at the door, but not too loudly.

However, the expressions of the three medical students were not very good.

On the other hand, Lu Ran had a commonplace attitude and didn't feel anything.

Growing up, there were not many other shops on the street, but there were so many pharmacies, which was no longer strange to her.

In addition, Lu Guoquan runs a clinic, and Lu Ran often goes to the clinic and sees too much.

Not to mention pharmacies, there are also many clinics.

In some shady clinics, patients can be cured by prescribing medicines for more than ten yuan, but it is impossible not to prescribe medicines that cost hundreds of yuan.

Even some minor colds can be solved with a box of medicine, but they are given various anti-inflammatory drugs.

This is not the case.

Instead, a lot.

And this kind of clinic that prescribes various antibiotics to patients at the slightest disagreement may even become a miracle doctor in the end.

There is a saying that people get sick in the morning, take medicine at noon, and get better in the afternoon.

Isn't this a miracle doctor?
"Stop talking about these unimportant things, grab the medicine first. After a while, the medicine cans will be bought, and we haven't even grabbed the medicine yet." Lu Ran urged.

The market where the medicine jars are purchased is two or three kilometers away from Lujia Bi Hui'an Pharmacy, and there is still some distance before entering the market. Logically speaking, it would be slower than Lu Xuan and others to go home.

But looking at these people chattering away, I wonder if they will go back later.

Lu Ran's urging made the three of them stop talking and walk straight into the pharmacy.

However, as soon as the four of them walked into the pharmacy, they heard an old man about 60 years old talking to the pharmacy staff on a medicine shelf in the pharmacy, and his words gradually became a little hasty.

Several people immediately cast their gaze over.

The uncle looked at the medicine the staff held in his hand, shook his head and said, "No, I want to buy this medicine, which is another kind."

The staff took the trouble to promote the medicine in their hands: "Oh, sir, why don't you try this medicine? It's a pure Chinese medicine with no side effects, and it's even more effective than the one you mentioned, but it's just a little more expensive. , but it’s not much more expensive, and it’s expensive for a reason, right?
Good things are not cheap, uncle, and good medicine is even more so. We only got this medicine this month. Normally we don’t have to sell it if you want to buy it. We sell this medicine very well, and many people say that they have taken it. The final effect is very good. If you don’t believe it, you can buy it and try it. You will know if the effect is good or not after trying it.

I know that the medicine you just mentioned is cheap, but it’s not very effective. "

The old man squeezed the sweaty banknotes in his hand, and then thought about the price the staff just mentioned, the movement in his eyes was shattered in an instant, and he regained his original clarity: "No, I will just buy this medicine!"

As the uncle spoke, he took out an empty medicine box from his pocket and showed it to the other party.

As if he was worried that the other party wouldn't see it, he raised the empty medicine box and pointed at it: "This is it."

The staff just glanced at him, pretending not to notice, and kept talking: "Uncle, it's okay if you don't want to buy this medicine. We have another medicine here with similar ingredients to the medicine you mentioned. , but it is specially designed for your symptom, how about I show it to you?"

"I'll just buy this. If you don't have it here, I'll go to other pharmacies to check it out." Thinking of his tight money, the uncle's expression was unusually firm.

"Uncle, the medicine you mentioned cannot be covered by medical insurance, and the effect is not as good as the two medicines I mentioned. I am doing this for your own good. If you buy these two medicines, you can still be reimbursed by medical insurance. What you said You have to pay for this medicine out of pocket, and it’s even higher than the price of these two medicines.”

"I want this."

"Do you have any? I'll leave without you."

The staff of Hui'an Pharmacy obviously didn't expect that they would meet such a difficult old man. They felt helpless for a while, but they still nodded: "Yes, there are, but we don't sell much of this medicine now, and we don't get much of it. , I don’t know where to put it yet, I’ll have to look for it for a while, if you’re in a hurry, I’ll get these two medicines for you.”

The old man said indifferently: "It's okay, I can wait."

The staff was really helpless now. Although they didn't sell the two medicines they wanted to sell, they were still customers and couldn't just miss it, so they had to go back and find medicines for the old man.

After a while, the staff came out with a box of medicine: "Uncle, do you think this is the case?"

The uncle took a look and compared it with the one in his hand. When he saw the exact same medicine box, he suddenly smiled and said: "Yes, yes, this is it. How much does it cost?"

"13."

"It's a dollar cheaper than the last time I bought it."

The uncle paid the money happily, took the medicine and left.

"Uncle, your medicine is really not as effective as this one." But before he could turn around, he was stopped by the staff again.

The uncle stretched out his hand and glanced at the other party: "I didn't bring enough money."

staff member:"……"

Seeing the old man walking out with the medicine, the staff was a little tearful. After introducing it to me for so long, I thought you really didn't want to sell it. It turned out that you didn't bring enough money. You should have told me earlier!If I had known earlier I wouldn't have wasted my breath.

After talking for more than ten minutes, my mouth was so dry that I didn't even have time to drink.

Seeing the staff of the pharmacy being embarrassed by the uncle, several of them couldn't help but laugh.

However, while I wanted to laugh, I felt some unspeakable discomfort in my heart.

What they think is, if the uncle brings enough money, will he buy medicines he doesn’t want to buy, but the medicines he originally wanted to buy are not bought?
Is it really a good thing to spend money but not buy what you want?

Moreover, medicines reimbursed by medical insurance are generally relatively expensive, and they are terrifyingly expensive.

For example, a medicine that usually costs ten yuan may be sold for fifteen or even twenty yuan once covered by medical insurance. Some medicines may even double in price.

I have to say that the uncle who didn’t bring enough money saved a lot.

But this uncle is lucky, and he is lucky, but there are also unlucky ones.

Many people come to buy medicine but fail to do so.

I knew that the commonly used medicine was relatively cheap, but in the end I was deceived into buying the expensive medicine.

Looking at this scene, Lu Xuan suddenly thought of a sentence that often appeared on the Internet:

"Low price, nothing", "low price to death".

Once a certain drug is priced at a low price, it will be immediately taken off the shelves in pharmacies, and the pharmaceutical factory will stop production, and you will not be able to take the cheaper drug.

Isn't this the same as pouring milk into the stinking ditch during the evil capitalist economic crisis?
They have the final say on supply and demand, prices, and profit margins, so of course they can make money.

Drugstores and pharmacists have bad consciences, but what about us?

Lu Xuan thought of a word.

It's cheap.

The more developed a society becomes, the meaner it becomes.

If you have to feed your children all day long, is there a calcium deficiency?Is there a zinc deficiency?Selenium deficiency?I wish I could eat the entire periodic table of elements.

Lu Xuan himself used to supplement like this when he was a child. Later, he started to eat something wrong. In addition, after Lu Guoquan opened a clinic, he heard about some things, so he stopped using these supplements. Basically, I didn't take any supplements. I ate fish, shrimps, big bones, vegetables, fruits, and drank milk. Not only did I have no problems, I was also in good health.

However, he also knows that this cannot be said to be cheap, it can only be said that the buyer is not good at selling.

Medicine sellers hope that people will get sick. How can they not get sick?
"What's wrong with this society?" Ji Xiuwen looked up at the ceiling of the drugstore. In fact, he had never seen something like this before, but this time, he was even more filled with emotion.

"It always feels like everyone is sick!" Lin Yongzhen thought for a moment and said.

Lu Xuan glanced at the two of them, with a solemn expression on his face, and uttered a sentence: "The person is not sick, it's the medicine."

The two were stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then looked at each other again.

The person is not sick, but the medicine is.

There should be no more pharmacies than grain stores.There are also matters related to medical representatives, drug bonuses, and minor illnesses and major treatments, all of which must be treated.

These were cured.The disease will be cured naturally.

However, several people also know that this kind of thing is simple to say, but unimaginably difficult to do.

Without him, there are too many vested interests.

To rectify this industry, too many people have been offended. This road is not only difficult to walk, not only the resistance is huge, but in front of this road, there is a side that cannot be seen how long, how thick, and cannot be seen. How high is a steel wall?

There's no way around it, and it's impossible to get through it.

With heavy hearts, the group walked into the pharmacy.

The woman who had not sold the medicine looked a little disappointed. She didn't know whether it was because the uncle didn't bring enough money, or because her words failed to convince the uncle.

But when she turned around and was about to leave, the appearance of Lu Xuan and his group rekindled her hope. With a habitual smile on her face, before anyone arrived, her voice came first: "Are you guys going to buy something?" Medicine?"

"Is there something uncomfortable, or..."

"We have professional doctors here who can recommend you the right medicine."

Underneath the professional smile is endless sales pitch.

Lu Xuan and the others had just experienced this person's mouth that could keep talking, and there was no surprise on their faces.

"Can you prepare Chinese medicine here?" Lu Xuan ignored the 30-year-old elder sister's promotion. Instead, he stepped forward and directly explained his purpose, so as to save the other party from selling other medicines to him.

"Preparing Chinese medicine?"

When the staff heard this, their tone suddenly stopped and they said: "Yes, yes, have you brought the prescription? If there is no prescription, we cannot randomly grab medicine."

There are indeed regulations in this regard.

It is also to prevent pharmacies from randomly prescribing medicines to patients in order to make money. In the end, the disease is not cured, but the disease is caused by taking the medicine.

This kind of thing has not happened before.

To use a saying on the Internet, that is, behind every weird rule, there are some weird things, otherwise there would not be such rules.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below.

It's true that you can't prescribe medicines randomly. It's okay to need a prescription. Large pharmacies will have a licensed physician who can prescribe prescriptions to people who come to buy medicines when needed.

"The pharmacy brought it, but it was handwritten." Lu Xuan took out the prescription and handed it to the other party.

The other party glanced at it and frowned: "This won't work. You need a prescription written by a doctor, or an electronically printed form like the one issued by the hospital."

After speaking, he looked at Lu Xuan cautiously.

Pharmacies with better business take these things very seriously. They are afraid that Lu Xuan is a spy sent by other pharmacies. Once the pharmacy takes the medicine according to this prescription, it will be reported and investigated later.

This has to be guarded against.

Lu Xuan also knows that many pharmacies are afraid of being reported, so they won't make any money if they don't make money. Otherwise, if they are really punished, it won't be a matter of one or two hundred, but tens of thousands. It is not impossible to even be suspended for rectification. .

So, under the other party's vigilant gaze, he took out his medical practitioner certificate.

(End of this chapter)